Press release 073 / 2015-03-03: Number of foreign first semester students up 4.5% in the academic year 2014

WIESBADEN - A total of 107,000 foreign new entrants enrolled at institutions of higher education in Germany in the academic year 2014 (summer semester 2014 and winter semester 2014/2015). Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 4.5% compared with the previous year. The number of foreign new entrants thus continued to rise.

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